Economic
This 1807 law, intended to protect American ships from British and French attacks, instead crippled American merchants and was widely hated.
What was the Embargo Act
This 19th-century philosophical and literary movement emphasized individual intuition, the beauty of nature, and the inherent goodness of people, with leaders like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
What is Transcendentalism
Known as the “age of the common man” and the expansion of white male suffrage
What was Andrew Jackson’s Presidency known as?
A movement that was against the overconsumption of alcohol.
What was temperance?
An agreement addressing the issue of slavery in new states Maine and Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The market revolution was a direct result of __________.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
What rebellion resulted in the deaths of approximately 55 white people and prompted a severe backlash, including the execution of 56 enslaved people
What was Nat Turners Rebellion
A political party in the United States that emerged in opposition to Andrew Jackson’s policies and the Democratic Party.
What was the Whig Party?
A convention where they discussed women’s right to vote and were also for abolition.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
Forced relocation of enslaved people in the United States, by demand for labor in the cotton industry.
What was the Internal Slave Trade?
Was known as the “Tariffs of Abominations” and led to the Nullification crisis in South Carolina.
What was the Tariff of 1828?
A period of national unity and optimism following the War of 1812.
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
A foreign policy that closed off European colonization and the U.S. couldn’t interfere with the internal affairs of European nations.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
A movement that was devoted to the end of slavery and the freedom African Americans in the United States.
What was abolitionism?
A intensely harsh type of slave labor where a group of slaves would work together under the supervision of white overseers.
What is the Gang System of Labor?
In the Louisiana Purchase, the US purchased 828,000 miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $ ________?
$15 million.
This war resulted in significant territorial gains for the US, and also heightened tensions over slavery.
What was the Mexican-American War?
A law that authorized the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their homelands to designated lands west of the Mississippi River.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
A protestant religious revival movement characterized by emotional preaching and focus on individual conversion in the United States.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
An abolitionist organization in the United States that advocated for an immediate and unconditional ending to slavery.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
Chartered in 1816 to stabilize the economy after the War of 1812, this national institution became a major target of Andrew Jackson’s "Bank War."
What was the Second Bank of the United States
A line from the newspaper written by John O’Sullivan stating that _____________________.
What is “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by…”?
The Judiciary Act of 1801 was a result of ______.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
A movement championed by Horace Mann advocating for free public education in the United States.
What was the Common School Movement?
Founder of an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator and co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?